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SAMMY'S SLOTS DOWNTOWN

Rock Falls · Whiteside County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 200701150 · Operator: Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. (as of August 2026)
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High play · lower holdMomentum −12%YoY −17%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$31,946
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$172
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$457,996
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$5,324
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
59th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#12 of 26 in Rock Falls
Hold
8.7%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
37th pct of 8,611 IL locations
35th pct of 26 in Rock Falls
Cycle rate
2.58×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
47th pct of 8,611 IL locations
42nd pct of 26 in Rock Falls
Play / machine
$61.1K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
61st pct of 8,611 IL locations
62nd pct of 26 in Rock Falls

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$215/mo vs the $5,109 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (August 2026)

NTI this month
$31,946
Gaming tax
−$11,181
After tax
$20,765
Your take-home
$10,382
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$11,181 · 35%Operator's 50%$10,382 · 32%Yours, 50%$10,382 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,382 to you and $10,382 to your operator this month. Neither side can move that split. That's the whole point of The Gameset: with the split set by statute, operators compete for your gameset on service — games, cabinets, refresh cadence, response time.

Where your gameset stands

High play · lower hold

Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.

What an operator sees: An operator sees busy machines with margin headroom — a gameset where better titles and merchandising pay off.

NTI/machine — 59th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Rock Falls — #12 of 26 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 52nd percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Rock Falls peers25 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Rock Falls peer (anonymized) statewide median

2 peer locations sit beyond the axis range and are drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.

Each gray dot is another Rock Falls gameset for the same month, shown without identity. The dashed lines are the statewide medians — which quadrant you land in is the positioning above, drawn out.

Trend

Net terminal income by monthpeak $50,487
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Rock Falls median ($26,988)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.58× · state median 2.60×
your cycle rate state median

Cycle rate is a leading indicator: when players start cycling their money fewer times, it usually shows up here before it shows up in NTI — an early read on gameset health for you and for an operator.

Win per unit by monthlatest $172 · Rock Falls median $145
your WPU (per machine, per day) Rock Falls median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 8.7% · state median 9.4%
your hold state median hold

These are the two series a service change shows up in. Fresher titles and faster response tend to move win per unit first; hold follows the game mix. Both are your own numbers against a neutral market line — not a verdict on anyone.

This year against last, by monthAugust 2026 down 17% on a year earlier
September 2025 – August 2026September 2024 – August 2025

A month that looks like a collapse is often just that month. Laid over the same months a year earlier, a seasonal dip and a real decline stop looking alike.

Seasonality check: July → August moved +0% this year vs +56% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Rock Falls's total gaming income is +4% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is −17% over the same-month-last-year comparison — the town's tide explains part of the move; it isn't all your gameset.

A deeper operator read

The same history, cut the way a Terminal Operator cuts it when they decide how hard to compete for your gameset.

Win per unit (WPU)
$172/day
per machine · per day · Rock Falls median $145/day · +18%
WPU momentum
−17%
last 3 months $187/day vs prior 3 $226/day
Seasonality
March peak
strongest March ($37,794 avg) · softest January ($22,942 avg)
Revenue steadiness
steady
±14% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Gold Rush Amusements, Inc.

Linked to your Location as of August 2026 — the Illinois Gaming Board publishes this each month, so a recent change may not show yet.

Locations
729
Avg NTI / Location
$37,312
Avg NTI / Terminal
$6,498
Total NTI
$27,200,241

Year over year

Your NTI is +51% up year over year, outpacing the Whiteside County market (+0%).

Your Location
+51%
$457,996 vs $304,195 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Whiteside County)
+0%
typical Location: $25,157 vs $25,035

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $5,324 in August 2026 — the 59th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations that month. Per-terminal NTI is the number operators judge a gameset by, because it strips out how many machines you run.
•Within Rock Falls, that's #12 of 26 locations by per-terminal earnings — the fairest like-for-like, since neighbors share the same foot traffic and economy.
•Hold — the share of money played that the gameset keeps — was 8.7% — below the 9.4% state median, which a stronger game mix could recover. Hold is driven mostly by the games in the gameset, which is exactly what an operator brings to the table.
•A dollar cycled through your machines 2.58× before leaving — higher means longer, more engaged sessions. When the cycle rate starts falling it usually shows up before NTI does, so it's an early read on gameset health for both sides.
•High play · lower hold — Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.
•After $11,181 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,382 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −12% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. runs 729 Locations in our data.
You're ahead of your market.

A gameset doing these numbers is the one Operators compete hardest for — and most owners never find out what that competition is worth, because they never put it out to bid.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$366,653
Amount won
$334,707
Net wager
$31,946
Funds in
$142,209
Funds out
$110,263
Net terminal income
$31,946
NTI tax
$11,181
State share
$9,582
Municipality share
$1,599

Source: Illinois Gaming Board monthly video gaming reports. This is public data about your own licensed Location, shown for informational purposes.

SAMMY'S SLOTS DOWNTOWN — gaming performance, Rock Falls, Whiteside County, IL — The Gameset